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A nursing care management company owes $3 million in overtime wages to caregivers at 84 facilities throughout the Midwest following a federal investigation, the US Department of Labor announced last week.
Petersen Health Care Inc. was found in violation of the Fair Labor Standards Act after failing to pay the correct overtime wages to more than 3,000 caregivers at facilities in Illinois, Iowa, and Missouri, the agency alleged.
The caregivers will receive $2,939,576 in "back overtime wages" for the period of June 2018 and June 2020, the DOL announced.
"While we have agreed to settle this matter, we do not agree with the Department's claims or the assumptions they made in determining their findings. Petersen Health Care pays, and has always paid, its employees fairly and equitably for all time worked," Greg Wilson, the company's senior VP of operations said in a statement to Insider, but he added that "the current economic...
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